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Quotes About Life

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
~ e. e. cummings
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.
~ E. W. Howe
I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
~ Edward Abbey
By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
~ Edward Abbey
Crucified preaching only can give life. Crucified preaching can come only from a crucified man.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.
~ Edwin S. Shneidman
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.
~ Emile M. Cioran
What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
~ Epicurus
Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
~ Ernest Hemingway
A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.
~ Francis Marion Crawford
Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
~ Frank Dane
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.
~ Franz Grillparzer
What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
~ Frederick Franck
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.
~ Gautama Buddha
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
~ Gene Wolfe
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
~ George Eliot
Valar Morghulis - All men must die.
~ George R. R. Martin
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
~ George Santayana
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
~ Lucretius